README File for:

"Mimicking Democracy: The Legitimizing Role of Redistributionist Propaganda in Autocracies"

The Journal of Politics

Hsu Yumin Wang, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (ORCID: 0000-0001-5779-9659)
Eddy S. F. Yeung, Emory University (ORCID: 0000-0003-2843-6810)

April 26, 2024

Operating system: Mac

RStudio version: 2023.06.1+524

List of replication materials for Study 1:
- "analysis_study1.R": R script required to produce Table 1 and Table 2 in the main text; and Figure S3, Figure S4, Figure S5, Figure S6, Table S1, and Table S2 in Appendix C.
- "GBS3_20200616.csv": GlobalBarometer dataset (Wave 2) used in "analysis_study1.R"
- "vdem.dta": V-Dem's Electoral Democracy index data used in "analysis_study1.R"
- "country_label_study1.csv": country label information for the GlobalBarometer dataset (Wave 3)

List of replication materials for Study 2:
- "analysis_study2.R": R script required to produce Figure 2 and Figure 3 in the main text; Figure S7, Figure S9, Table S4, Table S5, and Table S6 in Appendix H; Figure S10, Figure S11, and Figure S12 in Appendix I; and Figure S13 and Figure S14 in Appendix J.
- "main_data.csv": survey-experimental data
- "personality.R": R script required to produce Figure S8 in Appendix H
- "CUGS Final Data.csv": data from Truex's (2022) replication material used in "personality.R"

List of replication materials for Appendix A:
- "analysis_appendixA.R": R script required to produce Figure S1 and Figure S2 in Appendix A
- "GBS2.9.sav": GlobalBarometer dataset (Wave 2) used in "analysis_appendixA.R"
- "country_label_appendixA.csv": country label information for the GlobalBarometer dataset (Wave 2)
